Piotr Skiba

PIOTR SKIBA

„In boxes we think someone sits behind our eyes“

Jan 19 – Feb 24, 2018

Opening: Friday Jan 19, 2018,  6-9 pm

 

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Piotr Skiba (1980, Wroclaw ) Works and lives in Poland.

His work has been exhibited in several solo and group shows in museums, institutions and galleries as : Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art Warsaw (PL), Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (PL), White Box Art Center, New York (US), The Old Truman Brewery London (UK), MWW Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (PL), Leto Gallery Warsaw (PL), Giorgio Galotti Gallery Turin (IT), The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre BACC (TH), Center of Polish Sculpture, Oronsko (PL), CCA Kronika Bytom (PL), Dash Kortrijk (BE), Berthold Pott Gallery Cologne (GR), Griffin Art Space Foundation, Warsaw (PL), Art Station Foundation Poznan (PL), DAMA Palazzo Saluzzo Paesana Turin (IT). He is represented by Giorgio Galotti Gallery Turin.

 

 

Exhibition Text (Poem by Nick Flynn):

Bees may be trusted, always,
to discover the best, nay, the only
human, solution. Let me cite
an instance; an event, that,
though occurring in nature, is still
in itself wholly abnormal. I refer
to the manner in which the bees
will dispose of a mouse
or a slug
that may happen to have found its way
into the hive.
The intruder killed,
they have to deal with
the body,
which will very soon poison
their dwelling. If it be impossible
for them to expel or dismember it,
they will proceed methodically
& hermetically
to enclose it in a veritable sepulcher
of propolis & wax,
which will tower fantastically
above the ordinary monuments
of the city.
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When we die
our bodies powder, our bodies
the vessel & the vessel
empties.
Our dying does not fill
the hive with the stench
of dying. But outside
the world hungers.
A cockroach, stung,
can be dragged back out.
A careless child
forced a snail inside with a stick once.
We waxed over the orifice of its shell
sealing the creature in. And here,
the bottom of the comb,
a mouse,
driven in by winter & lack.
Its pawing woke us. We stung it
dead.
Even before it died it reeked – worse
the moment it ceased
twitching.
Now everyday
we crawl over it
to pass outside,
the wax form of what was
staring out, its airless sleep,
the mouse we built
to warn the rest from us.